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The glass castle : a memoir / Jeannette Walls.

By: Copyright date: 2005Edition: 1st Scribner trade pbk. edDescription: 288, [11] pages : portraits ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Children
ISBN:
  • 074324754X
  • 9780743247542
  • 0743247531
  • 9780743247535
  • 0739458213
  • 9780739458211
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV5132 .W35 2006
NLM classification:
  • WS 105.5.F2
Contents:
I.A woman on the street -- II. The desert -- III. Welch -- IV. New York City -- V. Thanksgiving.
Summary: In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HV5132 .W35 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001387025

Includes a preview of the author's book : Half broke horses.

In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.

I.A woman on the street -- II. The desert -- III. Welch -- IV. New York City -- V. Thanksgiving.

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